Between weekend holiday duties and postponed-til-after-the-grant-deadline meetings this week, I haven’t worked on my Processing December project since Friday. Today, though, I got through several chapters of GSwP, learning how to incorporate keyboard strokes, media files (images, fonts and vector graphics) and random motion into my programs. I would keep going, but the Processing text editor won’t let me. It puts up the above dialogue box when I try to create a new file and this one when I bypass that warning.

That’s like, the best thing I’ve ever seen software do.

In the beginning of the project, I wanted to get away from “programming” and into “processing.” Now I’m at the point where I want to move from “here’s what processing can do” to “what do you want processing to do?”

Also, the examples in this book make the progression through it much more appealing. I mean, I can code this sort of thing all day long.

p/s. char is pronounced “char” as in “charcoal.” Never knew.